Today, we’ve launched a new early years blog, for everyone who works in the early years sector. We will use the new blog to help raise understanding of different types...
Chris Russell, our National Director for Education, discusses this new area of our work. Today, we have published our new framework and handbook for inspecting lead providers of the early...
...crucial knowledge in today’s world. Primary schools have had a legal responsibility to teach languages since 2014. The first cohort of pupils that should have studied languages throughout key stage...
Paul Joyce, our Deputy Director for Further Education and Skills (FES), on the changes we have made to our FES handbook. Today, we published our updated education inspection framework (EIF)...
...context that we’ve published our updated inspection handbooks today. The changes cover how we will inspect early years providers, schools, further education and skills providers and non-association independent schools. Elsewhere,...
Sean Harford HMI, our National Director for Education, talks about the first inspections under the EIF and the trends we’re seeing so far. Today, we’ve published our first set of...
...and among school leaders and teachers recently. But as Ofsted-commissioned research published today suggests, different people have different definitions of what off-rolling is. At times this leads to confusion. While...
...to a more balanced picture. We want to make our expectations clear about our new approach for MAT summary evaluations, so today we’ve published our operational guidance to bring about...
...some of the practices we see in schools today have emerged. If you’re set a performance target you do what you need to do to meet it, I certainly do....
...her time at Ofsted, the curriculum is the real substance of education. We should be talking about it. Today, we’ve published Ofsted’s latest contribution to the discussion in the form...